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The pursuit of understanding fundamental particle interactions has reached unparalleled precision levels. Particle physics detectors play a crucial role in generating low-level object signatures that encode collision physics. However,…

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Simulating showers of particles in highly-granular calorimeters is a key frontier in the application of machine learning to particle physics. Achieving high accuracy and speed with generative machine learning models can enable them to…

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Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-06 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

Denoising diffusion models have gained prominence in various generative tasks, prompting their exploration for the generation of calorimeter responses. Given the computational challenges posed by detector simulations in high-energy physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-16 Dmitrii Kobylianskii , Nathalie Soybelman , Etienne Dreyer , Eilam Gross

Simulation is crucial for all aspects of collider data analysis, but the available computing budget in the High Luminosity LHC era will be severely constrained. Generative machine learning models may act as surrogates to replace…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-04 Oz Amram , Kevin Pedro

Simulating showers of particles in highly-granular detectors is a key frontier in the application of machine learning to particle physics. Achieving high accuracy and speed with generative machine learning models would enable them to…

The research of innovative methods aimed at reducing costs and shortening the time needed for simulation, going beyond conventional approaches based on Monte Carlo methods, has been sparked by the development of collision simulations at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Karol Rogoziński , Jan Dubiński , Przemysław Rokita , Kamil Deja

The simulation of calorimeter showers presents a significant computational challenge, impacting the efficiency and accuracy of particle physics experiments. While generative ML models have been effective in enhancing and accelerating the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-28 Simon Schnake , Dirk Krücker , Kerstin Borras

In High Energy Physics, detailed calorimeter simulations and reconstructions are essential for accurate energy measurements and particle identification, but their high granularity makes them computationally expensive. Developing data-driven…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Andrea Cosso

Simulating detector responses is a crucial part of understanding the inner-workings of particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The current reliance on statistical Monte-Carlo simulations strains CERN's computational grid,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Patryk Będkowski , Jan Dubiński , Kamil Deja , Przemysław Rokita

The precise modeling of subatomic particle interactions and propagation through matter is paramount for the advancement of nuclear and particle physics searches and precision measurements. The most computationally expensive step in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-07 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models with the salient ability to perform inference. Here, we introduce a quantum variational autoencoder (QVAE): a VAE whose latent generative process is implemented as a quantum…

The high-dimensional complex nature of detectors makes fast calorimeter simulations a prime application for modern generative machine learning. Vision transformers (ViTs) can emulate the Geant4 response with unmatched accuracy and are not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Luigi Favaro , Andrea Giammanco , Claudius Krause

Calorimeter shower simulations are often the bottleneck in simulation time for particle physics detectors. A lot of effort is currently spent on optimizing generative architectures for specific detector geometries, which generalize poorly.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-19 Junze Liu , Aishik Ghosh , Dylan Smith , Pierre Baldi , Daniel Whiteson

We show the first use of generative transformers for generating calorimeter showers as point clouds in a high-granularity calorimeter. Using the tokenizer and generative part of the OmniJet-${\alpha}$ model, we represent the hits in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-12 Joschka Birk , Frank Gaede , Anna Hallin , Gregor Kasieczka , Martina Mozzanica , Henning Rose

Score based generative models are a new class of generative models that have been shown to accurately generate high dimensional calorimeter datasets. Recent advances in generative models have used images with 3D voxels to represent and…

Most 3D scene generation methods are limited to only generating object bounding box parameters while newer diffusion methods also generate class labels and latent features. Using object size or latent feature, they then retrieve objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Ajmal Saeed Mian

CaloFlow is a new and promising approach to fast calorimeter simulation based on normalizing flows. Applying CaloFlow to the photon and charged pion Geant4 showers of Dataset 1 of the Fast Calorimeter Simulation Challenge 2022, we show how…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-17 Claudius Krause , Ian Pang , David Shih

The de novo generation of molecules with desirable properties is a critical challenge, where diffusion models are computationally intensive and autoregressive models struggle with error propagation. In this work, we introduce the Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haozhuo Zheng , Cheng Wang , Yang Liu

Design of new experiments, as well as upgrade of ongoing ones, is a continuous process in the experimental high energy physics. Since the best solution is a trade-off between different kinds of limitations, a quick turn over is necessary to…

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